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Example sentences for "bossy"

Lexicographically close words:
bosques; boss; bossed; bosses; bossing; bost; bosun; bot; bota; botanical
  1. Not that you're a calf, you know; but Bossy has a sweet sound, thinkest thou not so, my comrades?

  2. Did you and Bossy quarrel over a girl, and go to Crest Island to have a duel?

  3. It looks to me as if Bossy had been there to buy a handkerchief.

  4. I think Bossy was a calf to show his temper that way, and I like it here better than in the stern.

  5. Bossy and his chum blew in, but they didn't stay long," added Phil.

  6. And what would you say if I told you that Bossy had a handkerchief of that same pattern, with a strip torn off?

  7. And I suppose, when we get back in the Fall, about all we'll hear will be Bossy and his shell.

  8. Bossy wouldn't have any object in taking that.

  9. If Mendez didn't have his store open and his stock ready for sale, how could Bossy have bought any?

  10. I mean about Bossy going there to buy one of these gay handkerchiefs.

  11. The only drawback about Crest Island," said Phil, "is that Bossy is going there.

  12. Wouldn't it be queer if Bossy had found those cups and other things, and gotten rid of 'em through the Mexican, after he found he had carried the joke too far?

  13. Yea, it is not my mood to stand and fight with foemen from afar, wherefore I have spears, and bossy shields, and helms, and corslets of splendid sheen.

  14. As when thick snowflakes flutter down from Zeus, chill beneath the blast of Boreas born in the upper air, so thick from the ships streamed forth bright glittering helms and bossy shields, strong-plaited cuirasses and ashen spears.

  15. So spake he, and drew the mighty spear of wise-hearted Sokos forth from his flesh, and from his bossy shield, and his blood flowed forth when the spear was drawn away, and afflicted his spirit.

  16. At a corner of the mansion, now steeped in darkness, there was a gas lamp which stood in a hollow since the river margin had been banked up, and this lamp cast an uncertain glimmer upon the quay, level with the latter's bossy soil.

  17. He was a man with a bossy brow, the large, massive jaw of an obstinate believer and pale eyes bespeaking an ingenuous soul.

  18. Like Nineveh and Babylon, and like Thebes and Memphis, Rome became but a plain, bossy with remnants, amidst which one vainly sought to identify the sites of ancient edifices, whilst its sole denizens were coiling serpents and bands of rats.

  19. About noon, as usual, big bossy cumuli began to grow above the forest, and the rainstorm pouring from them is the most imposing I have yet seen.

  20. Heard a few peals of thunder from the upper Sierra, and saw firm white bossy cumuli rising back of the pines.

  21. Cloudland to-day is only a solitary white mountain; but it is so enriched with sunshine and shade, the tones of color on its big domed head and bossy outbulging ridges, and in the hollows and ravines between them, are ineffably fine.

  22. There were little gaps in the hedge and the wall, through which we peered into a daisy-starred pasture, where a white bossy and a herd of flaxen-haired cows fed on the sweet green grass.

  23. The last mile of its course lies between the sides of sunken domes and swelling folds of the granite that are clustered and pressed together like a mass of bossy cumulus clouds.

  24. Bossy and the Daisy Right up into Bossy's eyes, Looked the Daisy, boldly, But, alas!

  25. Bossy attained considerable reputation, and ended his days with a fair competence.

  26. Every several surface is delightful in itself, as a shell, or a tuft of rounded moss, or the bossy masses of distant forest would be.

  27. V Mrs. Smithers The chickens were clucking peacefully in their corner of Uncle Ebeneezer's dooryard, and the newly acquired bossy cow mooed unhappily in her improvised stable.

  28. So saying, he plucked the strong spear of warlike Socus out of his flesh and bossy shield; and his blood gushed forth as he drew it out, and tortured his mind.

  29. Hence I have both spears, and bossy shields, and helmets, and corslets, brightly polished.

  30. But when these collecting together came into one place, they clashed together shields and spears, and the might of brazen-mailed men; but the bossy shields approached one another, and much tumult arose.

  31. Thus having spoken, crest-tossing Hector departed; but about him the black hide, the border which surrounded his bossy shield, kept striking his ankles and his neck.

  32. Thence have I store of spears, and bossy shields, And crested helms, and breastplates polish'd bright.

  33. He would be a dear if it wasn't for his silly little old bossy wife!

  34. I'm not going to have her get bossy with these children, either.

  35. That sculpture is essentially the production of a pleasant bossiness or roundness of surface; (2) that the pleasantness of that bossy condition to the eye is irrespective of imitation on one side, and of structure on the other.

  36. So saying the Hero went, and as he strode 140 The sable hide that lined his bossy shield Smote on his neck and on his ancle-bone.

  37. He by the foot drew off Iphidamas, His brother, son of his own sire, aloud Calling the Trojan leaders to his aid; 315 When him so occupied with his keen point Atrides pierced his bossy shield beneath.

  38. So saying, the valiant Socus' spear he drew From his own flesh, and through his bossy shield.

  39. Gail won't feel so bad about losing Bossy if we can get another just as good.

  40. I can't bear to have Bossy look at me like that!

  41. Now that Bossy is gone, I don't know what we are going to do for milk.

  42. But somehow Bossy resented being pulled like a bell-rope and the milk didn't come.

  43. The sight of the child's great distress touched the big man, and pausing only long enough to close his shop, he followed her flying feet down the road to the little brown house where poor Bossy lay.

  44. Allee let go, but Bossy did not whoa until, with a wild plunge, she lurched against the stone watering trough, groaned and lay down with one leg doubled under her.

  45. Illustration] The bossy was a little afraid they might hurt her baby, so she wasn't quite friendly.

  46. And I'll tell you this much more: it is in a hoofprint of Bossy the Cow.

  47. You know when the ground was wet and soft early this spring, Bossy left deep footprints wherever she went.

  48. In a hoofprint of Bossy the Cow," repeated Sweetvoice, chuckling softly.

  49. Then Abbe Mouret beheld the rude plants of the plateau, the dreadful-looking growths that had become hard as iron amidst the arid rocks, that were knotted like snakes and bossy with muscles, set themselves to work.

  50. And some displayed horrid dropsical bellies; some had spines bossy with hideous humps, and others looked like dislocated skeletons.

  51. Here and there the soil was bossy with mounds.

  52. He acts as know-it-all and bossy as if he owned the whole place.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bossy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; arbitrary; aristocratic; arrogant; assertive; authoritarian; authoritative; autocratic; beef; bison; bitch; bold; bossy; bovine; buffalo; bull; calf; cattle; cow; critter; despotic; dictatorial; doe; dogie; domineering; embossed; ewe; feudal; filly; grinding; heifer; hen; hind; imperative; imperial; imperious; kine; lordly; magisterial; mare; masterful; maverick; milker; oppressive; overbearing; overruling; peremptory; raised; repressive; severe; slut; sow; steer; strict; suppressive; tigress; tyrannical; yearling